Delighted for everyone involved in making Celtic the first club in Britain to be given permission to install Safe Standing facilities. There’s time for a seat but going to the football in Scotland was largely a standing undertaking for a century, for good reason.
Standing enables the creation of football’s now too scarce atmosphere, it allows people to shuffle in the cold and sing with projection. It’s also safer across more scenarios than sitting.
I have one (significant) problem with the plans……..
Celtic intend to install Safe Standing at the corner of the lower North and Lisbon Lions stands, including the Green Brigade’s area. The Green Brigade pitched up at this part of the ground one League Cup game several years ago, the area was no more or less appropriate for as a singing section than any other part of the ground.
The North Stand upper is the proper place for a Safe Standing section, front and centre of the stadium. It’s where the Jungle was, and if we’re going to come anywhere close to recreating the unique atmosphere of the Jungle in a modern stadium, we must select the appropriate area.
The Safe Standing section will have unique properties. The ability to stand all game, bounce around and generally be more active, will ensure it sells out, but it’s unlikely to attract the infirm, and it will never be part of the family section. It’s also not going to attract corporate business.
The decision where to locate this section is unlikely to be reversed until there is a major stadium renovation, and that’s likely to be decades away. A couple of decades out, there will be more demand for family and infirm sections, more demand for corporate and lounge facilities.
Football spent years failing to notice how people grew fond of comfort, shelter, safe and clean facilities. The trend is not over. Thousands will want to stand, but perhaps more will want access to lounges, video games for the kids and shops selling all sorts.
Celtic Park is magnificent building of its time but it’s not a 21st century stadium. The Celtic Way is genuinely stunning, but if we want to cater for fans in the decades to come we’ll need proper cafes, fan zones, bars, better toilets and a museum. We’ll need to make use of all that land we’ve acquired, but which largely lies undeveloped.
Real estate in the lower stands will be more of a premium in the future, we should plan for it now, make the Safe Standing section the New Jungle.
Sports Direct is not a travel agents – for the avoidance of doubt.
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Mine Ashley relinquishes Directorship at Newcastle.
Mmmmmm????
…Rocky Road to Dublin?
leftie
Big hugs to yer wee mam on my behalf. Ye only get wan mam, treasure her. I know you do bud. :-)))) Hope you are keeping well also. See you soon in the new season. KTF.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
Ooh aah tagatelle pasta!
Linguini on the wall says we’re magic we’re magic
Linguini on the wall
I said ooh ah, ooh ah I said ooh ah fresh pasta
Lennon n mcm
Spooky
Is he going to threaten to put himself on Sevco Board?
Another coup on the way?
Summerv football in Scotland ? iI only see one problem.
If King takes the huns doon Peter Lawwell will rightly take some of the blame.
Standing. Good News.
Nir. Good news.
HH
The boys of the old roulade
sky
Ha!
hang on – a challenger
bankiebhoy1
18:38 on
10 June, 2015
…Rocky Road to Dublin?
Grace (before meals)
I wish Mike Ashley would just walk away from Sevco.
He has the money and the know how to fix their problems.
TT
I object to these food themed rebel songs .
How about. ….
Starvation once again
The Potato a Famine song.
Sorry (:-(
TT
The foggy jus
Let the Pea Pod Sing.
Sausage roll of honour
RST Response to Mike Ashley
The Rangers Supporters Trust notes the statement by MASH today and, given that Sports Directs and MASH have felt the need to attempt to justify their untenable position with regard to Rangers Football Club, we felt it would be appropriate to respond in similar detail.
First of all we would like to announce that our members have voted overwhelmingly ahead of the upcoming GM to support the Rangers board recommendations on the resolutions put forward. We will be voting against the MASH Resolution 1 and for the Rangers board Resolution 2.
MASH has laid out its concerns about the delisting from AIM. They seem to be ignoring documented fact and attempting to insinuate that the loss of the listing was down the incoming board rather than the previous board, effectively controlled by MASH, which had mismanaged the club over the preceding months. Mr Llambias and Mr Leach, lieutenants of Mr Ashley and appointed by him, as well the Easdale brothers, Mr Ashley’s shareholder allies, managed the club with disgraceful disregard for its fans, staff and well-being over a period of many months. Simply put they ran it into the ground. They ignored concerns of their customers and shareholders and at times deliberately antagonised them.
If MASH was concerned about the AIM listing then they should have chosen their boardroom placemen more carefully and ensured they ran the company with proper levels of corporate governance and not simply for the benefit of Mr Ashley. In short, Mr Ashley may well know how to make money for himself at any cost but as can be seen at both Rangers and Newcastle he doesn’t have a clue how to run a football club properly.
On the retail side we note Mr Ashley’s points and would make several of our own.
1) Rangers has historically had one of the most profitable merchandise brands in UK football. This was the case up to and including the JJB deal prior to Mr Ashley’s involvement.
2) At no point in the past 20 years has Rangers made as little money from merchandise as they have since Mr Ashley became involved.
3) Sports Direct claim to be experts in retail and indeed they are. They are experts at making money for Mr Ashley however, not his “business partners”.
4) Mr Ashley talks about a “far reaching distribution network”. Ask Rangers fans abroad how that network is working for them as they ask friends and family to post strips to them.
5) Mr Ashley may have a profitable business but it is one that specialises in low price goods. Sports Direct does not have a clue how to grow, market and improve a premium sports brand like Rangers and frankly shows no interest in doing so. In fact, Sports Direct have hugely damaged the Rangers brand through Mr Ashley and his associates antagonistic attitude to fans.
6) If Rangers were to repay Mr Ashley’s loan, recover all securities and revert to the previous Rangers Retail split they would still be the victims of the contracts put in place by Mr Ashley’s lieutenants and would continue to make a pittance whilst Mr Ashley enjoys virtually free stadium advertising and Sports Direct make money at every stage of the retail process.
Mr Ashley talks of being a “supportive business partner” yet has called a spurious General Meeting to vote on a resolution that he knows has no binding effect and which will be defeated. He is costing the club more money having already secured assistance from previous board members to hand him ridiculous merchandise deals, virtually free stadium naming, virtually free advertising space at Ibrox and the granting of security over club assets when much more favourable loan arrangements were on offer. Repaying the loan and “equalising profit arrangements” as Mr Ashley disingenuously puts it, does not solve the underlying problem that the contracts he has entered into are solely for the benefit of Sports Direct.
It is our position that, unless Mr Ashley renegotiates the current contracts he holds with Rangers Football Club, on terms which are vastly more profitable to the club, then Rangers fans should not purchase any official merchandise. We would also suggest that they should boycott all brands and companies that Mr Ashley is involved with. Mr Ashley’s business practices have been the source of much public debate recently and we fully expect that to continue. Rangers Football Club has suffered as much as any company at the hands of Mr Ashley and his greed at all costs mentality. We will continue to liaise with any interested party to expose exactly how Mr Ashley conducts himself and look forward to making further progress in that regard in the very near future.
Syd
Brilliant
HH
Couple of sticks of JELLY(gnite) and me aul aluram clock
Drop by if you like.
Rather interesting vino.
Just had a delivery from wine society hence not needing amerone.
In 1979 – who on here went to the Partizan Tirana away game?
Bear with me – there ‘s a reason for my question.
Paul
Please delete my last post. Was a text to one of my wino friends.
Good job I didn’t reveal my secret life as a …………
For Mash Went Smash ..
:)
You will never welk alone ….
braw
winning captains
19:00 on 10 June, 2015
Thanks for that post. Rhetorical of course but what bargaining do they have to renegotiate more favourable terms.
What King is trying to do is take sevco down. Laughed at the bit where he mentions 20 years; they’ve only been going 3 and a bit.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
See big Virgil telling the world we should cash in on him and he needs a new challenge, no bother big man hand in a transfer request then or will that cost you your loyalty bonus or your % of the fee ????
Skysalandfill be round in 15 mins!! H H Hebcelt
DELANEYSDUNKY
Great stuff,mate. Pass on my best wishes to Chris and tell him the J2O are on me.
Oh,best warn him that the Cromarty Firth is joooost as bliddy cauld as the North Sea!!
Sannabhoy
Mail sent don’t know if you got it
HUNSKELPER
Someone posted a different version of his words. I prefer to believe the version that wasn’t in the MSM
Googybhoy
Is that true about Ashley?
Why would he do that?
Like you I’m concerned he may engineer more influence at the Bigotdome .
I’m delighted with the work of the current owners and hope they are allowed to continue unmolested without real operators with money and clout getting involved!
HH
cowiebhoy
15:36 on 10 June, 2015
Totally agree, July would be a good start, kids are off school so play every Saturday & midweek,
An Tearnann from earlier Dnipro this season and other teams who shutdown in the winter do better than us as a league, Abrrdeen, Ict & whoever else has qualified might be better prepared if our league is up and running, personally I want my 6yr old to get interested no chance in November & December, June & July would be a maybe
Ok ghuys, things to do, I have a life, so will bid you all Night Night Timland.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
King is only trying to get back the supposed millions he invested when Moonbeams was in charge of the dead club. Hope the gullible buy their season tickets in their blind follow follow arrogance.
Burghbhoy….
City AM – 58 mins ago
Oh well….